It's Always Been You [Eddie Munson]

XXI

February 12th 1987

It had been one month since school had started, i have met a couple of people and only enjoyed a handful of their company, i had a new friend, Casey Ingraham, she stays in the room next to mine and i have another acquaintance, Theo Hills, i enjoyed his presence and he was the complete opposite of what he looks like, when you approach him he seemed to be mean, as if he'd bite your head off but beneath that cold look he was a total goofball with the dumbest jokes which always put a smile on our faces, Casey and his brother had been dating for years so they have been joined to the hip because he was supposed to be her bodyguard but would often find her beinf the bodyguard in some situations, Theo and i had a weird relationship since he walked in my room with my sitting on my bed doing my homework in only my bra and shorts, we hadn't brought up the incident but his eyes sometimes wonder down to my boobs which i catch him doing rather often, he stopped trying to hide his shameful glances which made it harder to hate the guy because he'd always act innocent in the situation. He had explained multiple times that he thought it was Casey's room but Casey knew he was lying because he helped her carry her stuff to her room and he never mistaked it before i moved in, after a week of us torturing him, he confessed and said Casey told him about me and he wanted to see what i looked like but he didn't expect to see 'so much of me' which caught me off guard, we often argue about his honesty but it is dearly appreciated when you need an opinion on something, he surely doesn't care if he hurts your feelings and says what he thinks. Casey had told me how he made her cry at prom because he said her dress made her look fat, but her boyfriend threatened to kill his younger brother for his bluntness and therefore thinks before he gives his opinion about something she asks him, i can't help but laugh when i see him bite his tongue, stopping himself from saying something mean, when we spent time alone, he'd rant about how unfair it was and how Casey told everything he says and does to his brother which was a bad thing because his brother was the complete opposite of him and didn't appreciate 'good comedy'.

Eddie and i have been talking every day from 8pm till 10pm, while i do my homework and he talks about how shitty his job was and how short he had to cut his hair because of the works rules, he complained about having to wear overalls and how his muscles were tense and needed me to massage him to feel better, as we promised we call each other every morning and watch the sunrise together, we agreed to skip the sunset because his still at work and i would be at the coffee shop around the block from campus annoying the coffee guy with Casey and Theo, i have told him all about them and it would usually be my favorite part of the day to tell him all about their shenanigans for the day, at first he was skeptical about me having another male in my life but Theo once stole the phone from me and somehow began a weird bromance over the phone which was disappointing because he knew my schedule when talking to Eddie so he'd knock on my door till i let him in and he'd tell Eddie how i annoyed him during the day or whatever stunts i pulled, he also told Eddie about the professor who had taken an interest in me and every single day Eddie would bring it up, as if it was his mission, he had asked me multiple times to switch classes but it wasn't that easy, after a whole hour of convincing him i didn't want an old professor he gave up and told me about his female co worker, which i assumed was out of spite and somehow made me extremely jealous at the thought of him being near some girl every day when i only get a couple of hours talking to him over a phone, the first few days of hearing him talk about his job and his coworker, 'Stacey' I was head on that i was going to leave and go back to Hawkins.